Attendance and Rankings Trivia

[Bergermeister]

...Often mentioned topics here.
70th Anniversary - the 1947 undefeated SWC Champs
at Santa Clara 22-6 att. 5,000
Missouri at the Cotton Bowl 35-19 att. 35,000
at Ok. A&M 21-14 att. 18,000
No.15 Rice at Ownby 14-0 att. 23,000
at No.16 UCLA 7-0 att. 64,000 (SMU #12)
No. 3 Texas at the Cotton Bowl 14-13 att. 50,000 (SMU #8)
at Texas A&M 13-0 att. 28,000 (SMU #3)
Arkansas at Ownby 14-6 23,000 (SMU #4)
at Baylor 10-0 att. 12,000 (SMU #3)
at TCU 19-19 att. 31,000 (SMU #3)
No. 4 Penn State Cotton Bowl Classic 13-13 att. 47,500 (SMU #3)

[PonyTime]

I love the good old days when we would only let fans into the stadium 1,000 fans at a time!

[smusic 00]

Yes, round numbers only, please.

[Bergermeister]

The barcode scanners of the 1940s were not as accurate as they are today.

[PonyTime]

This is a great strategy-

If the 40 most die-hard SMU fans were charged with each bringing in 999 people in order to see the game all of our attendance problems would be solved.

BTW - I also have to question how accurate the scanners are even today.

[Fresno Mustang]

Interesting they made two trips to California in the same year, I didnt know teams traveled that much back then

[Bergermeister]

Interesting they made two trips to California in the same year, I didnt know teams traveled that much back then

1 by train, 1 by plane

[mrydel]

Sounds like Paul
Revere was our AD